Word: cappella
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Imagine my surprise to find dozens of posters and hear dozens of announcements announcing the Orientation Week a cappella jam in Sanders Theater. I had been betrayed, but consoled myself with the thought I would never have to hear a group sing...
...cappella advertisements are big, glossy, and multi-colored, displaying everything from a crocodile crawling on a piano to millions of little pumpkins. In Currier, where I live now, the posters attack me as soon as I step into any elevator. (It's kind of fitting, since in the real world, I would expect to hear a cappella tunes in an elevator...
ALTHOUGH there are other singing groups on campus, the a cappella groups reap the most publicity and support. They certainly have the most money; they love to brag about their spring trips to the Caribbean or "around the world." Why do they have to come back...
...period of vulnerability several weeks ago when I gave a cappella music its last chance. As I sat in Sanders Theater, wringing my hands and looking all around me, I realized that I had come to that moment of self-hatred. They had annoyed me, driven me to drink, and, finally, dragged me into their concert...
...that lowest moment that I recognized a solution to the problem. For free speech reasons, a cappella music must have a place at Harvard. So why can't that place be the Mather House television room...